Turkey issues detention warrants for 17 football fans over banner for supporting hunger strikers
Detention warrants were issued by Samsun Chief prosecutor's Office for 17 fans of Turkish football club Beşiktaş for holding a banner during a Sunday match that...
70-year-old Turkish woman intending Hajj pilgrim detained on coup charges at İstanbul airport
A 70-year-old Turkish woman, who is a prospective Hajj pilgrim, was detained by Turkish police on coup charges at İstanbul’s Atatürk on Thursday night.
According...
Social media posts reveal dismissed police officer subjected to torture for months in Turkish...
A.G., a 32-year-old police officer, who was dismissed as part of Turkish government’s post-coup purge of police department, has reportedly been kept in a...
HDP report shows Turkish police tortured 36 villagers with truncheons, rifle butts and mop...
A report by pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) concerning an incident of villagers allegedly tortured by police in the Şemdinli district of Hakkari has...
Turkey detains 23 people including HDP co-chairs in Antalya-based anti-PKK operations
Turkish police have detained 23 people, including Antalya co-chairs of pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in operations against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)...
Turkey detains journalist Altan in Mersin province
Dihaber reporter Berivan Altan has been detained in Mersin province based on a detention warrant, t24 news website reported on Thursday. According to the...
Jailed journalists refuse to wear uniforms designed for coup suspects in Turkish prisons
Imprisoned journalists from Cumhuriyet and Sözcü daily told members of Turkish press organization who visited them in Silivri jailed on Thursday that they will...
Three more detained for allegedly insulting Turkey’s Erdoğan on social media
Three people were detained in Çorlu district of Turkey's Tekirdağ province on charges of insulting the country's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on social media on...
Member of Turkey’s top judiciary, imprisoned lawlessly, faces risk of death
Mustafa Erdoğan, a dismissed member of Turkey's top judiciary, has been kept imprisoned in a hospital room under police custody for 8 months despite...
Mother of twins sent to jail as terror conviction for selling books upheld by...
Mülkiye Demir Kılınç, a 32-year-old mother of twin babies was put under arrest after the Court of Appeals upheld her conviction on terror charges.
Detained along...
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